Sentence examples for peculiar narrative from inspiring English sources

Then again, Christmas is often said to be "for" children, so perhaps no one is too young to shoulder its peculiar narrative burdens.

One peculiar narrative freedom of Game of Thrones, bracing to both readers and viewers, is its willingness to kill a character with whom we had been invited to identify.

While it is true that the amendment was a classic election-year ploy, it owes its power as much to a peculiar narrative of class hostility as it does to homophobia or ideology.

The sequence of presentations ended up developing a very peculiar narrative.

It's a beautifully judged piece, luring visitors into its kaleidoscope of peculiar narratives but not expecting them to check in their critical faculties at the gallery entrance.

What really started to come through was the show's peculiar, floating narrative structures — its visually lovely sequences that linked together playfully, often without overt dramatic stakes.

After a peculiar early narrative detour to combat reports of his late adoptive father's homosexuality, Rove burnishes his family values cred with repeated references to his own happy heterosexual domesticity.

When Chavez's behavior starts to grow peculiar, Pawel's narrative, a little pallid until then, lights up.

The Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood defines the subject of her book "Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth" — which originated as the 2008 Massey Lectures in Toronto — as "one of the most worrisome and puzzling things I know: that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force".

So peculiar are history's narrative building blocks.

Gill brings to this narrative a peculiar blend of earnestness, self-aggrandisement, cant and anger.